al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 3641
✧ Prohibition of Concealing Knowledge
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وَقَالَ مُسَدَّدٌ: حَدَّثَنَا خَالِدٌ، حَدَّثَنَا الْهَجَرِيُّ، عَنْ أَبِي عِيَاضٍ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ:
مَثَلُ عِلْمٍ لَا يُقَالُ بِهِ كَمَثَلِ كَنْزٍ لَا يُنْفَقُ مِنْهُ فِي سَبِيلِ اللهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Musaddad
- Khālid
- al-Hajarī
- Abū ʿIyāḍ
- Abū Hurayrah
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
✧ The example of knowledge that is not spoken of is like the example of a treasure from which nothing is spent in the way of Allah, Mighty and Majestic.
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Other narrations of this report
Sunan ad-Darimi 574Sunan ad-Darimi 576al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 691Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 35811Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 35812Musnad al-Bazzar 9827
Narrators
- The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AHأَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابةعن
- mukhaḍram, trustworthy (thiqah), devout worshipperd. It was said: during the caliphate of Muʿāwiyahأَبِي عِيَاضٍمخضرم ، ثقة عابدعن
- Weak in ḥadīth (layyin al-ḥadīth); he raised statements that were only the Companions' (mawqūfāt) to the Prophet ﷺd. between 141 and 150 AHالْهَجَرِيُّلين الحديث ، رفع موقوفاتحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), firm (thabt).d. 179 AH, or 182 AH, also said: 183 AH.خَالِدٌثقة ثبت.حدثنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 228 AHمُسَدَّدٌثقة حافظ
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